the mind, consisting of 33 factors, "was in the right side of the first
man [father] for seven days. Then, departing from his left side,

it entered the womb of the first woman [mother] through the top of her
head.

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Then it turned into a drop of sesame oil which stuck to the tail of a
deer for seven days." {hence the symbolism, in the Markan.d.eya
Puran.a, of the Manu's [= mind's ?] holding the tail [flagellum
?] of a doe deer [spermatozoo:n ?] while she swam through the waters of
the deluge [= intra-uterine moisture ?].}

the vowels became the joints & sectors of the body:-

the 3 short vowels "became the connecting points."

a

knee

i

waist

u

neck

the long vowels became the connected sectors:-

a

right leg

i

left leg

u

right arm

e

left arm

o

body

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the consonants became the 32 constituent substances of the body:-

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k

hair of head

kh

hair of body

g

finger- & toe-nails

gh

teeth

n

skin

c

flesh

ch

tendons

j

bones

jh

marrow

n~

spleen

t.

heart

d.

pleura

d.h

kidney

n.

lungs

t

small intestine

th

large intestine

d

food being digested

dh

excrement

l.

skull

n

brain

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n [again!]

gallbladder

p

phlegm

ph

pus

b

blood

bh

sweat

m

fat

y

tears

r

fatty oils

l

spit

v

mucus

s

joint-fluid

h

urine

{this system would imply consonant + vowel type of syllables such as are specified
by glosses in Tantrik lexical compendia.}

{assignment of alphabetic letters to bodily parts & substances is also
made in the Kala-cakra Tantra.}